Anaxagoras  - 2020-01-10
Oh man.... that phrase gets me so riled up.
Oh really? You can't make highly offensive things anymore? Have you seen South Park, jackass? They're still making it, it's still popular, and those guys can still be pretty damn offensive.
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Old_Zircon - 2020-01-10 Blazing Saddles isn't offensive.
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SolRo - 2020-01-10 It’s offensive to conservatives
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Nominal - 2020-01-10 Movies and TV are very different. Movies are a hollowed out, corporate shell of their former selves that never risk anything. All the talent and daring migrated to TV around the turn of the century.
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IrishWhiskey - 2020-01-10
The only people saying this are kids who are repeating the phrase without any context for how media has actually changed and haven't really thought about it, and people whining that they don't get to use the N-word, but Mel Brooks did.
They also firmly ignore how often that word is used in media today such as serious dramas. Because they don't want to just use it, they want to use it in jokes at the expense of black people. Like the characters in Blazing Saddles. All you have to do is ignore how they were the satirized bad guys, and suddenly the complaint makes sense.
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IrishWhiskey - 2020-01-10 The even dumber variant I see on this from kids is "You couldn't make Tropic Thunder today." Because people say blackface is bad, so clearly times have changes since the Obama era days where you could say anything, to the silenced and censored current PC era...
Or, you know, context. Your shitty Michael Jackson costume you did to be edgy but don't ever want to face criticism for, isn't the same as a movie where characters directly call out how racist blackface is.
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Binro the Heretic - 2020-01-10 No, plenty of old fucks are saying it, too.
The ones who don't understand how the use of the "N" word in "Blazing Saddles" is vastly different than the way they like to use the "N" word.
They just think, "I can't use the 'N' word, so that means nobody can."
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Maggot Brain - 2020-01-10
''You Couldn't Make 'Blazing Saddles' Today'' is on my family's crest.
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Cena_mark - 2020-01-10
Lenny Bruce went to jail for his comedy, Dave Chapelle receives criticism on Twitter for his. Dont tell me speech is less free.
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Gmork - 2020-01-10
Yet to find someone who cries about a loss of free speech who doesn't look like he wants to scream the n-word constantly.
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Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2020-01-11
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today 'cause that might remind Warner Bros. of the four deliberately unaired seasons of the TV version it co-produced with CBS just to get around a sequel clause in Mel Brooks' contract. They might finally want to fart that version out on CW Seed or something.
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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2020-01-11 Woah! I had to check that out..
The wikipedia entry is great....
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My lawyers, bless their souls, came to me and said, 'Warner Bros. is going to try and take away your control of the movie. Let's put in a crazy condition that says they can't do any sequels unless they make it right away or make a TV show out of it within six months.' Which is brilliant. They couldn't make a sequel in six months, and the movie was too vulgar to be a TV show. Now it would air in family hour if that was still a thing. So the lawyers put that in, never thinking they'd make a TV show. ... In 1977, three years later, Warner Bros comes to me and says they want to make another Blazing Saddles, and I say, 'No. You don't have the right to do that.' They say, 'Yes we do, we've been making a TV series and still control the rights.' What TV series? I haven't seen a TV show. They take me onto the lot, into a projection booth, and show me three episodes. My lawyers never thought to put in language that said they had to air the damn thing, only that they had to make it. Oy gevalt! Well, management changed and they never did Blazing Saddles 2, and as far as I know they're still making that stupid show to this day.
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SolRo - 2020-01-11 So by this point it’s possible that someone had a decades long acting career making a show no one will see
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